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Brazilian presidential candidate Eduardo Campos died Wednesday in an airplane crash in the southeastern city of Santos. He was 49. Campos died after a nine-seater Cessna 560XL crashed at about 10 a.m. following an aborted landing because of bad weather, the air force said in statement. The two pilots and four members of Campos' campaign team on board all died when the plane crashed on a gym. "Brazil loses a a young leader with a promising future," President Dilma Rousseff said in a speech. "A man who could climb to the highest positions." She declared three days of mourning and suspended her re-election campaign during that period. The death of Campos upends...

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Brazilian presidential candidate Eduardo Campos died Wednesday in an airplane crash in the southeastern city of Santos. He was 49.
Campos died after a nine-seater Cessna 560XL crashed at about 10 a.m. following an aborted landing because of bad...